Generic Control System Architecture for Critical Infrastructure Protection

In an interconnected world that we live in, protection of our societies and values relies highly on critical infrastructures. The more we are developed, the higher is the dependency on critical infrastructures, the higher are the stakes and risk impacts of threat to it. From the perspectiive of an EU member country, the approach in protection of the critical infrastructures takes into account the national, regional and EU level with respective aligned regulattory frameworks and policies. Due to the multi dimensional character of CI\u27s, embedded interdependency among it from the sectoral point of view and territorial (national, regional, supra-national) a comprehensive, hollistic approach not only to security but also to the overall model of protection needs to be developed at the national level and integrated at the supranational level. Therefore, taking into account the main regulations and legal base at the EU and Croatian level, this article explores in brief and on a high level the Generic Control System Architecture for CIP to be presented as a model upon which knowledge based, process event control information systems for CIP could be designed and built in order to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency on a member state and EU level of the critical infrastructure protection